The Shawnee Mission Northwest High School community of students, parents, teachers and staff on Friday night honored a student who died after a school workout.
The tribute to Ovet Gomez Regalado came before the school’s first varsity football game of the year.
Students started the new school year mourning the loss of their classmate.
The 15-year-old suffered a medical emergency after a workout at the school and later died at a hospital.
Cougar fans couldn’t go to the first varsity football game of the season without thinking of their classmate and how he should have been with the team.
A photo of Gomez Regalado filled the scoreboard before kickoff.
“It has just not been the same,” said Lauren, a ninth-grade student at SMNW. “We went to football games together and we just had so much fun in elementary school and played on the playgrounds.”
KSHB 41 Even though the Cougars’ school colors are orange and black, classmates, teachers, staff and parents also wore green for Gomez Regalado.